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The Senate Minority report is out: “More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims”

Larry Kummer, Editor

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“More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims“, Minority Staff Report, U. S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 11 December 2008, 231 pages.

Introduction:

Over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. This new 231-page U.S. Senate Minority Report report — updated from 2007’s groundbreaking report of over 400 scientists who voiced skepticism about the so-called global warming “consensus” — features the skeptical voices of over 650 prominent international scientists, including many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN IPCC.

This updated report includes an additional 250 (and growing) scientists and climate researchers since the initial release in December 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.

The chorus of skeptical scientific voices grow louder in 2008 as a steady stream of peer reviewed studies, analyses, real world data, and inconvenient developments challenged the UN and former Vice President Al Gore’s claims that the “science is settled” and there is a “consensus.” On a range of issues, 2008 proved to be challenging for the promoters of man-made climate fears. Promoters of anthropogenic warming fears endured the following:

  1. global temperatures failing to warm,
  2. peer-reviwed studies predicting a continued lack of warming,
  3. a failed attempt to revive the discredited “Hockey Stick,
  4. inconvenient developments, and
  5. studies regarding CO2, the Sun; clouds, Antarctica, the Arctic, Greenland, Mount Kilimanjaro, hurricanes, extreme storms, floods, ocean acidification, polar bears, lack of atmosphieric dust, the failure of oceans to warm, and rise as predicted.

In addition, the following developments further secured 2008 as the year the “consensus” collapsed.

  1. Russian scientists “rejected the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming”.
    An American Physical Society editor conceded that a considerable presence” of scientific skeptics exist.
  2. An International team of scientists countered the UN IPCC, declaring: “Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate”.
  3. India Issued a report challenging global warming fears.
  4. International Scientists demanded the UN IPCC “be called to account and cease its deceptive practices,” and
  5. a canvass of more than 51,000 Canadian scientists revealed 68% disagree that global warming science is “settled.”

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